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Roger Von Oech's Books
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Expect the Unexpected (Or You Won't Find It)"You can't step in the same river twice." "Dogs bark at what they don't understand." "The doctor inflicts pain to cure suffering." The ancient Greek...Read More
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Psych Central, January 3, 2012
...take photographs, or create crafts. Study astronomy, science, philosophy, fashion and flora,” Jacobs said. She also suggested reading Roger von Oech’s A Whack on the Side of the Head and Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird along with biographies and...
Training, November 11, 2011
...sharp logical thinking. For a short introduction to Heraclitus, read A Whack on the Side of the Head, Roger von Oech’s interesting book on creativity. (2) It is not always known in the West that several Japanese cultural monuments (Zen Buddhism, formal...
Norwalk Citizen News, February 21, 2012
...psychologists (don't blame me) believe the school system actually drains the creativity out of students. In fact, Roger von Oech, who wrote a wonderful and fun book on creativity, "A Whack on the Side of the Head," said that children go into school as...
Pique News Magazine, February 16, 2012
...push that will take you the rest of the way, I offer two related insights from creativity specialist Roger von Oech: 1. If you get too fixated on solving a certain problem, you may fail to notice a new opportunity that arises outside the context of that...
